OK. Thank you that makes sense I agree, with the above.

So it all checks out with the Apocalypse, now we have to look closer at what the explanation is for this beast...

Yes, and the basis for that explanation is found in Fr. Palau's book, but also and primarily in Daniel, the Apocalypse and  4 Esdras. All of these works are talking about the same entities and the same events. So we must tease out the essential core of events and put together the unique puzzle pieces that each description provides. Then the picture will come into better focus. 

I am happy to go through it with you and tell you what I have found.

The biggest hurdle to overcome is the tendency to think of these apocalyptic scenarios as referring to secular, geo-political events and people. That is fundamentally incorrect. These prophetic works are concerned with the Roman Catholic Church in the time just before the Second Coming.

The prophetic veil uses the symbols like wars and swords and kings and beasts in a figurative way to hide the fact that the subject matter is the final battle taking place between "the woman" and "the serpent." The woman is at once the faithful remnant Church and the Virgin. The serpent is Satan and his possessed agents working inside the Church to destroy it. These agents are ultimately the Antichrist and False Prophet, but also the antichrists and false prophets who prepare the way for these last demonic manifestations. And these are real people, the Cardinals and Bishops primarily, but also the Popes who allow themselves to be influenced by those demonic Cardinals and Bishops.

Do you think the following part of Fr. Palau's vision (below) fits the above description:

4. I looked towards the earth and I saw another beast. And this third one was like a lamb; it had the fleece and horns of a lamb, and the inhabitants of the earth believed that it was Christ, the Lamb of God; and I, at first sight, thought the same, but looking carefully, I saw that it had claws like a lion, and teeth like a wolf, and it blasphemed like the dragon, It received power like the beast with the seven heads and with great, marvellous signs made all the inhabitants of the earth adore the first beast.

-Do you understand the mystery of the second beast the angel asked me.

-No.

-That second beast is all the kings who say they are Catholics but are not, and united with one body with the people they govern, they speak like demons against Christ and his Church, and form a league with all the others in the war against God. To these powers, represented in their horns, are united all those Christians who are such only in appearance, but who in reality have neither faith nor true charity; and these are the ones who mixed  with the just, stir up cινιℓ ωαr, which is all the more cruel, because disguised like the lamb they enter the sanctuary of God, and fill it with abominations; and this is the body of this beast which fights from within the first attacks from without. This beast is the one which makes use of all the arts of magic, associated like the first with the dragon, and produces marvellous cures in the human body; it is the one who hides for the time being in magnetism and spiritualism [Dn. 9 -27, Rv 17, 4: 21-27; Mt 7,15], and the one who when discovered will imitate the mission of the Prophet Elijah and Eunuch with apparent miracles. And with these signs all the peoples of the earth will fall at the feet of the first beast, and no one will escape corruption.

https://www.magisterium.com/search/f1856f72-0f17-4585-ad08-150c4bfe60f8


Notice the last point it makes HERE ^.

This is one reason Fr. Palau's writings matter. Like you said, "another piece of the puzzle."

Do you think the following part of Fr. Palau's vision (below) fits the above description:

4. I looked towards the earth and I saw another beast. And this third one was like a lamb; it had the fleece and horns of a lamb, and the inhabitants of the earth believed that it was Christ, the Lamb of God; and I, at first sight, thought the same, but looking carefully, I saw that it had claws like a lion, and teeth like a wolf, and it blasphemed like the dragon, It received power like the beast with the seven heads and with great, marvellous signs made all the inhabitants of the earth adore the first beast.

-Do you understand the mystery of the second beast the angel asked me.

-No.

-That second beast is all the kings who say they are Catholics but are not, and united with one body with the people they govern, they speak like demons against Christ and his Church, and form a league with all the others in the war against God. To these powers, represented in their horns, are united all those Christians who are such only in appearance, but who in reality have neither faith nor true charity; and these are the ones who mixed  with the just, stir up cινιℓ ωαr, which is all the more cruel, because disguised like the lamb they enter the sanctuary of God, and fill it with abominations; and this is the body of this beast which fights from within the first attacks from without. This beast is the one which makes use of all the arts of magic, associated like the first with the dragon, and produces marvellous cures in the human body; it is the one who hides for the time being in magnetism and spiritualism [Dn. 9 -27, Rv 17, 4: 21-27; Mt 7,15], and the one who when discovered will imitate the mission of the Prophet Elijah and Eunuch with apparent miracles. And with these signs all the peoples of the earth will fall at the feet of the first beast, and no one will escape corruption.

https://www.magisterium.com/search/f1856f72-0f17-4585-ad08-150c4bfe60f8


Notice the last point it makes HERE ^.

This is one reason Fr. Palau's writings matter. Like you said, "another piece of the puzzle."

Sorry I've been too busy to respond. The first AI quote is close. The Second AI quote is garbage. 

The Dragon is Satan, as the Apocalypse says. His demons infest people, including people inside the Church.

The Beast from the Sea (aka "the Beast") is specially referring to the final head (aka "the eighth" of Apoc. 17). But there is a long history of getting up to the final beast (1929-2025). This is where Daniel Chapter 7 comes in. It needs to be read to understand the detail and sequence of the Four Beasts. Then 4 Esdras explains more about the Fourth Beast, the Ten Horns of the Apocalypse, which are described as the Eagle in 4 Esdras. Both books are describing the same final entity: The Eagle is the Council of Cardinal Advisors with the 3 heads (Bergoglio is the big head, Prevost and Parolin are the small heads). They are the final Fourth Beast that is unlike all the others.

The Beast from the Earth (aka "the False Prophet") is the false prophets who follow Bergoglio who promote the Bergoglian agenda of Synodality. The main False Prophet is the one installed in Rome who speaks seductively to entice people into following the Synodal agenda. This is mainly Prevost, but all bishops as well, because they are all promoting the same agenda.

The main thing is that the Beasts are INSIDE "the Church," it is describing the hierarchy of the Counterfeit Church. The Harlot is the laity of the Counterfeit Church who follow ("ride") the Beast. 

The Woman who goes into the wilderness is the remnant faithful, who separate from the Harlot and the Beasts to stay alive spiritually with valid Sacraments until Jesus returns. There is a lot more than this, but best to take it in small bites. 

If you can give me very specific questions, I tell you how I think it fits with my understanding and provide citations in the texts.

Yes. I was only throwing it up so you could see WHY it was so trashy (it was from Magisterium AI - which is biased). As soon as it detects what it perceives as the magisterium coming under attack it freezes and just keeps saying, "no", "no", "no"...

Now look at this:


I am going to abandon Rome. I will take away the throne of the pontiff and deliver the city to the power of the devils and the revolution. Rome will no longer be the centre of the religion of Jesus. I will destroy and behead its priests and religious and again I will organize the enemy of Christ and his Church. The throne of the supreme pontiff will not return because it will be transferred to another place.”


4. I could hardly believe what I was seeing the angel added: “Rome will be punished severely and the day is at hand, the day of weeping, mourning and grieving of blood and of fire and so that you will see how just is the heavenly vengeance, come, climb up to the peak of this mountain and from here you will see the abominations introduced in the holy place predicted by Prophet Daniel.”


Full of consternation, fear and terror, my hair bristled, my flesh horrified, I climbed up to the peak of the mountain: “Look carefully and watch what is there in the sanctuary, scrutinize it, do not speak and keep the secret; the mystery of iniquity is already consummated, I am going to punish the culprit and the blood of the just will appease the wrath of God.”


5. I was praying earnestly for the Church and the voice answered: “The prayers and supplications for the holy Church are heard and accepted by God. Do not pray for Rome because the decree of God is irrevocable, the punishment of the culprit and the patience of the martyrs will bring back to the holy Church her liberty, her glory and her splendor

Yes, the vision is about the abominations of the Counterfeit Catholic Church. That is most of what the Apocalypse is about. It is not about geopolitical wars and persecution of Christians by secular nation-states or the UN or whatever. The nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr is the New Order (the Novus Ordo). 

The "mystery of iniquity" is the Novus Ordo, which removed the "mystery of faith" from the words Consecration.

But the vision in the Apocalypse is about things that happen during last years leading up to the Second Coming. We are just starting the 6th period of each Septenary (Seals, Trumpets, Vials). 

Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist (La Salette). This is what the true Third Secret is talking about. This what the Pike letter was planning, to slowly infiltrate and turn the Roman Catholic Church into the Harlot of Babylon. All of these sources are talking about the same events that we are now living through (and have been for many decades). But the degree of harlotry started slow and has built more and more as Daniel explains.

Of course the true Church, the faithful Remnant, is preserved, praise be to God, "in the wilderness," where we have valid Sacraments, etc. 

“because disguised like the lamb they enter the sanctuary of God, and fill it with abominations;”

“Look carefully and watch what is there in the sanctuary, scrutinize it, do not speak and keep the secret; the mystery of iniquity is already consummated, I am going to punish the culprit and the blood of the just will appease the wrath of God.”

“Here you have the power of evil; a power which is outside the temple, and a power within the very sanctuary, united under one banner against God and his Church;”
 
“from here you will see the abominations introduced in the holy place predicted by Prophet Daniel.”

Yes, they are "outside the temple," in the sense theological sense, meaning outside the Church because they are apostates and heretics. But they are "within the very sanctuary" because they have infiltrated the Institutional hierarchy and run the show as wolves in sheep's clothing. 

Daniel 9:

"26...And a people with their leader that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.  27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end."

The people with their leader are the modernists INSIDE the Church. The damage they do is to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which turns the institutional Church into a sacramental wasteland. This is where we are now. This is not something off into future. Apocalypse Now. But it has nothing to do with geopolitical wars and such. It is about the desolation in the Church.

I'm not aware of any Catholic commentary on the Apocalypse that says all of these figures and events refer exclusively to the state of the church.

By "Catholic commentary" you mean with imprimatur?

I also, agree that one cannot take what I currently consider a maximum reductionist view and pin in "exclusively" on a false church.

That is what Angelus and I are working through.

The global political power is the Holy See's activities carried out mainly by the Vatican Secretariat of State. The counterfeit religious system the one we already know about.

Unfortunately, the Catholic commentators did not want to see what was hidden in the words of the Apocalypse. They did not want to believe that the Antichrist was to be the false head of the Antichurch, the Counterfeit Catholic Church.

Read the Apocalypse, the symbols and imagery are religious and Catholic. In Apocalypse 13, the Beast is described with these words:

6 And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.  7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation.

Who are these people referred to as every tribe, and people and tongue and nation? It is the Catholic Church, as you can see in Apocalypse 5:

8 And when he had opened the book, the four living creatures, and the four and twenty ancients fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints:  9 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; because thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.  10 And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

Therefore, the Beast (aka the Antichrist) is an Antipope of the Counterfeit Catholic Church.

See how Barry's Commentary can be understood and think of how the false church turns people to free-masons without them realizing it:





What is the "mark" then?



Yes. it works with Barry's Commentary.


^ 100% what we see at Rome.



^ False Holy Orders.